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Religious Experience - Coggle Diagram
Religious Experience
Key terms
Mystical experience
Full blown, out of body experiences
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LET'S GO HATING
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Freud
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We fear death, so we invent a God figure to provide us with an afterlife so death is not real, whilst the father allows us to hide like a child
He was not a scientist, he's overgeneralising
Some people switch religions, so an experiencing prompting conversion does not explain why they switched to a new afterlife
Swinburne
REs are evidence for God's existence, if we experience something that makes it true. Rationally speaking, we ought ot believe such cases unless we have reason not to
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This idea goes back to the enlightenment scientist Laplace. Laplace is often said to have claimed that God was an unnecessary explanation regarding the universe.
So, we need more than just religious experience to justify belief in God.
Even if Swinburne is right that religious experiences are evidence for God – that doesn’t mean they are enough evidence to justify believing in God.